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Using Pipe in to rmdir command

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Hi,

I am using a scheduled task that runs every night to take backup of important files. This task creates a folder in the following format

Backup_DD_MM_YY

where DD_MM_YY denotes the date when the backup was taken.

Now everytime this scheduler runs I need to remove the older directory and create a new one with current date. In order to remove the directory I tried the following but it doesn't work.

for %%A in (C:\Backup*) do rmdir /s /q %%A
Can somebody please help
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Hey There,

Unless it's a permissions issue (where you can't delete the folders as the user that runs the batch file) is it possible that you're trying this at the command line as proof-of-concept for the batch file.

If you're doing command line testing, although the variable MUST be %%A in your batch file, it has to be %A when run from the command line (why? I haven no idea

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  1. c:\cygwin\tmp\test>dir
  2.  Volume in drive C has no label.
  3.  Volume Serial Number is F08F-D325
  4.  
  5.  Directory of c:\cygwin\tmp\test
  6.  
  7. 12/16/2008  10:15 PM    <DIR>          .
  8. 12/16/2008  10:15 PM    <DIR>          ..
  9. 12/16/2008  10:15 PM    <DIR>          test1
  10.                0 File(s)              0 bytes
  11.                3 Dir(s)   4,743,143,424 bytes free
  12.  
  13. c:\cygwin\tmp\test>FOR /D %A IN (C:\cygwin\tmp\test\*) DO rmdir /s /q %A
  14.  
  15. c:\cygwin\tmp\test>rmdir /s /q C:\cygwin\tmp\test\test1
  16.  
  17. c:\cygwin\tmp\test>dir
  18.  Volume in drive C has no label.
  19.  Volume Serial Number is F08F-D325
  20.  
  21.  Directory of c:\cygwin\tmp\test
  22.  
  23. 12/16/2008  10:16 PM    <DIR>          .
  24. 12/16/2008  10:16 PM    <DIR>          ..
  25.                0 File(s)              0 bytes
  26.                2 Dir(s)   4,743,143,424 bytes free
  27.  
  28. c:\cygwin\tmp\test>

Best wishes,

Mike
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Hi Eggi,

Problem Solved.....Dude you are genius . See you around
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Cool... and thanks

Glad you're doing good!

, Mike
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